Sidney Blumenthal (L), a longtime Hillary Clinton friend who was an unofficial adviser while she was secretary of state, arrives to be deposed in private session of the House Select Committee on Benghazi at the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 16, 2015. Congressional investigators had issued a subpoena seeking testimony from Blumenthal because he emailed private intelligence reports to Clinton on events in Libya before and after the deadly attacks by militants that killed four Americans including U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst -

Gowdy told “The Story” host Martha McCallum that Blumenthal gave information to Christopher Steele, the former intelligence officer who authored the dossier which served as the basis for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant Republicans say was politically motivated.

Weeks before the 2016 election, someone in former President Barack Obama’s State Department was feeding information to Steele from a foreign source, but there was also a domestic source.

“When you hear who the source or one of the sources of that information is, you’re going to think, ‘Oh my gosh, I’ve heard that name somewhere before. Where could he possibly have been?'” Gowdy said.

“I’m trying to think how Secretary Clinton defined him,” Gowdy said. “I think she said he was an old friend who emailed her from time to time.”

Gowdy said he’s known about Steele’s domestic dossier source for a month. “Everything that there is to know about it, and I have known about it for over a month,” he said. “If you go and read the documents at the Department of Justice, you see it. I am troubled by it.”

House Republicans released a memo from Rep. Devin Nunes Friday that alleges the FBI used the unconfirmed dossier to apply for a politically motivated FISA warrant. The Democrats have tried to release a rebuttal memo that adds context that is necessary to get the whole story.

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